American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs

This film (drama)Also known asAmerican Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs，is aUnited StatesProducerwomen sex，At2013Released in year 。The dialogue language isEnglish，Current Douban rating8.9(For reference only)。

Grace Lee Boggs, 98, is a writer, activist, and philosopher living in Detroit. This documentary, "American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs," explores her thoughts, advocacy actions, and life. Chen Yuping was born in 1915 to immigrant parents who ran a Chinese restaurant. She grew up comfortably but felt the need for social change. She graduated from Barnard College and later studied philosophy at Bryn Mawr College, earning her PhD in 1940. Due to the situation of minorities in American society at the time, she took a low-paying job at the philosophy library at the University of Chicago after graduation. There, she inadvertently witnessed African American citizens protesting, which led her to focus on and participate in the civil rights movement for African Americans' equal rights. Later, she moved to Detroit, which had a large number of auto workers, and married auto worker and activist James Boggs. On their honeymoon, they had to spend the night in their car because segregation laws at the time prevented her African American husband from staying at the motel. She became part of the African American community and participated in the local civil rights movement. Chen Yuping's thoughts were deeply influenced by Hegel's dialectics and Marx's theories of social development. Her thinking has continually evolved; today, she advocates for nonviolence and has a "No War" sign on her lawn. She believes that hope should not be placed in leaders but that change must start within oneself. In her old age, she organized the "Detroit Summer" and "Community Garden" projects, dedicating herself to community rebuilding in a declining city.